The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-16
Weekly News Summary.


ORRIN Ford has been appointed postmas-
ter at Miles Pond
C. w. THuRpER has sold his lease of the
Dixon House at Underhill.
FIFTEEN inches of snow fell at North Troy
Friday The sleighing is excellent.
JOHN WRIGHT of Vergennes is fattening
three thousand turkeys for the New Years
market.
Mr.. AND Mrs. wEssoN MAcoMBER of
Grand Isle celebrated their golden wedding
recently.
DIpHTHERIA has broken out at East Rich
ford, and several cases are reported, with
one death.
REV. GEORGE II. BAILEY of Richford has
accepted call to st. Andrews church, St.
Johnsbury.
NINETEEN persons were received iuto full
membership at the Brandon Methodist
church the 9th.
MATTHEW CAIN of West Rutland drank a
glass of cider mixed with Paris green. He
died in two hours.
Mr.. AND Mrs TRUMAN MOORE of Will
mington celebrated their golden wedding
on the 9TH instant.
A COSTLY granite monument is to be set
up in Swanton TO the memory of the late
Colonel A. b. Jewett
PROFESSOR l.. o. EMERSON is to hold
a four days musical convention in Milton
the first of next month.
THE St. Adams Methodists recently raised
81 80 toward liquidating the debt of $4,000
which burdens the society.
DIPHTHERIA prevails to serious extent
at Montgomery, and the public schools have
been closed in consequence of it,
AN extensive forest fire has been raging on
the line of the Bennington & Rutland railroad
near Dandy. Great damage has been done.
In A VII ~
will regret Rev. j. III. Rabbits acceptance
of the call to West Brattleboro.- Messenger.
IT can be set down as practically settled
that the Rutland railroad is going into the
hands of the Central Vermont. - Boston
Record
Mr.. j. L. ScoTT of the Franklin House.
Highgate Springs, will manage fine hotel
at Green Cove Springs, Florida, the coming
season.
EDWARD CoNANT of the Normal School at
Randolph has been elected president of the
New England Normal School Teachers AS
ISOLATION.
FRED PERRoN of St. Adams was sentenced
to 1856 days in the house of correction at
Rutland for assault on Theodore Smith
Thursday night
II is stated that the line officers of the
National Guard of Vermont are to change
their uniform, substituting in the place of
tHc gray udlh
PETER GREENoUGH and Terrence Mccall
of Colchester have been arrested for steal
ing butter Some eighty pounds of that ar
ticle were appropriated by them.
A NEW marble pool is reported which, it
is claimed, will cover quarries in the vicn-
ity of Pittsford and Brandon. All varieties
of marble are found in those towns.
HAMILTON ORMsBEE, lately connected with
the New York Times, has assumed the man
agement of the Rutland Evening Telegram
temporarily, with view to permanency.
A PULP-MILL is being built by Wilder &
Co. at Ocott Falls, on the New Hampshire
side of the Connecticut, and the firm is erect
ing four or five mills on the Vermont side.
REV. E. A. HoYT, pastor of the Church of
the Messiah at ST. Johnsbury, has received
a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of
the First Universalist church in Province
town, Mass.
THE barn of George Sawyer of West New
bury, with its contents, was burned recently.
There were ninety tons of hay and the oats
from fifteen acres of land in the barn. Loss
81 800; partially insured.
THE Soldiers Home has bought Cooley
cabinet creamer, large enough for twelve
cows, from the Vermont Farm Machine
Company at Bellows Falls. The company
sold it to the home for half the regular price
WORK on the Chittenden county Jail has
been suspended. The funds provided by
the legisature-S1900 0-are exhausted and
the assistant county judges will not advance
the money realized from the old Jail prop
erty and the special tax.
AN Aristos three-year-old colt, which was
greatly admired by visitors to the horse
breeders meeting at Rutland in September,
has since been sold for $4,000. The colt
was raised by II. ID. Fish, a farmer, who lives
a few miles from Rutland.
AN extensive fire has been raging ON land
belonging to John Whitcomb Jason Clark
and II. S. johnson in Williston. The burnt
district covers nearly 900 acres. Mr.. John
son has lost over one mile of fence. Build
lngs were threatened in several places.
SINCE the 9th of September there have
been thirty-one cases of diphtheria reported
to the health officer in Rutland, and of the
number seven have died, after an illness
of from twelve to thirty-siX hours. Thus far
this month seventeen cases have been re-
ported.
AT st. Johnsbury Levi Defoe, aged six
teen years, was fined so and costs for TAX
ing William Lynch, twelve years old, into a
barn and making him drink alcohol until he
was drunk and then horse-whipping him to
get him sober. Light punishment for such
an offence.
THE local water famine, which has existed
for some weeks and which has caused a
great deal of inconvenience in st. Adams
is thought to be about over. The rains of
the past week have raised the reservoir and
it is expected that no further trouble will be
experienced.
RIPToN is reported to be excited over
the poisoning last week of cattle belong
ing TO William Calvin, who lives near
Bread Loaf Inn. 1t is said that seven ami
mals-five cows and n yoke of oXen-have
died. Mr.. Calvin thinks he knows the
author of the mischief.
THE Catholic school in Rutland was closed
last week, by order of the health officer of
the village, DIR. Caverly, he being convinced
that the children attending that school were
in constant danger of being exposed tC
diphtheria, as all the cases reported for the
present month have been from that neigh.
borhood
THE state lodges of the Daughters of Re.
bekah held their convention at BrattleborC
on the 9th instant seventy-tive delegates
being present. These officers were elected
President, er-Qbtcio, Grand Master Wilson
vice-president Mrs. l.. j. Retting; secre-
tary, Miss NJ. j. Ranney; treasurer Mrs.
George Bacon.
THOSE who were fortunate enough to vsi
Burlington last week beheld brilliant spec
tacle. The forest fires on the New Yorl
shore were raging furiously, lighting up the
country for miles around, while on the hills
from St. George to Williston and Hines
burgh there seemed TO be almost one con
tinuous line of fire.
S. MCCAUGHLY of Australia, who ha,
been in Addison county for the last month
buying sheep for his ranch on which he hal
more than 600 600, has purchased $50 from
among the best tlocks of the county, buy